A recent West Point graduate and self-identifying Marxist, 2nd Lieutenant Spenser Rapone, didn’t just become a rebellious communist. He has a history of insubordination. Read a superior officer’s quavering report and weep.

West Point did nothing. Lt. Rapone continues, as of this writing, as a commissioned officer. Who knows what happened to LTC Robert M. Heffington.

He might be found in a corner, shaking in fear of marauding social justice warriors.

Have you heard about this story anywhere besides conservative and military blogs? Did you see Senator Marco Rubio’s letter to West Point expressing alarm that a traitor is in their ranks and they’ve done nothing? Then there’s these pathetic defenses of the baby commie.

The problem is not Lt. Rapone. The problem is the decay and decadence infecting the culture has infected the military. It didn’t take long for President Obama’s pernicious influence to degrade the American military’s ability to defend itself from enemies both foreign and domestic. President Obama was so successful, that the military is incapable of adequately dealing with traitors in their midst.

How did the military get here? First, there was the purge. From Rense.com here are the list of Generals purged from the military during Obama’s reign up through 2013:

There are some recognizable names there. In their places, leaders willing to enact morale-busting policy and readiness-damaging regulations became President Obama’s go-to guys. Kurt Schlicter says:

“ Many of these people are courageous on the battlefield — they’ll happily charge a Taliban warrior wielding an AK-47. But they quake in their boots back home in the face of an enemy they don’t understand and that can destroy their careers — the Social Justice Warrior. That’s why you don’t see them saying what every damn one of them knows is true — that women, despite their heart and commitment, are a net liability in ground combat units, that trans troops are an expensive distraction and damaging to morale, and that the insane focus on “diversity” programs sucks up priceless training time and fuels, rather than quells, discord in the ranks.

But they don’t dare object. That’d be risky. And these are the senior leaders who we will allow to lead our sons and daughters in battle if Korea goes hot.

To destroy an institution, degrade their leadership. Those who succeed under the new leadership will display the same cowardly, amoral behavior. Like attracts like.

Next, destroy the standards. For years, President Obama has worked to reduce readiness. Smoking pot is fine —November, 2016. Being fat and female is fine–July, 2016, Marine Corps.

Then, put these weakened warriors near combat. In 2012, President Obama allowed women to get closer to combat.

Finally, look away from egregious behavior. Ignore it. Excuse it. Allow guys like Lt. Rapone to skip around campus with Ché shirts while tweeting love notes to Marxism. Make it clear that no behavior is out of bounds. Condemn people who raise concerns. Allow guys like Nadal Hasan to flourish in the name of political correctness. Then, after he kills people, allow him to live and spout off about hunger strikes.

Erode. Erode. Erode.

The American military spends precious time and training resources teaching troops about tolerance and gender issues. Remember the indoctrination that happened in offices around the country a couple decades ago? Now imagine the same condescending, vapid training among our warriors. It was bad enough to suffer as middle management. Imagine knowing that your job is to kill enemies and being stuck listening to that garbage.

John McCain and Lindsey Graham talk about how President Obama degraded military readiness by cutting funding, letting equipment age, etc. The real degradation, though, happened with personnel. By gutting leadership, enforcing mush-headed regulations, and creating an environment hostile to maintaining discipline, the military, even venerable institutions like West Point, are left with guys like Spenser Rapone.

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LTC Huffington had a run in with Rapone, long before he graduated from the ‘Point. It was documented back then and ignored.